“After the Hamas massacre on October 7, it was hard not to notice the explosion of anti-Semitic hatred hitting college campuses across America. At Cornell, a student called to 'follow the Jews home and cut their throats' and a professor said he was 'exhilarated' by the terrorist attack. On dozens of other campuses, students gathered to celebrate Hamas.”

So writes Bari Weiss in her newsletter, The Free Press .

“Where all this hatred comes from is a question worth thinking about. Thanks to the work of the Network Contagion Research Institute, we now have a clearer picture of the forces at play. 200 American colleges and universities illegally withheld information about $13 billion in foreign contributions, many of them authoritarian. Furthermore, while correlation is not causation, they found that the number of anti-Semitic incidents on a given campus has a significant relationship with whether that university received funding (disclosed and undisclosed) from regimes, or regime-related entities, in the Middle East".

And it just so happens that Qatar - the benefactor of Hamas - is the main benefactor.

The Daily Wire reports on the link between money and Islamism: “Among the Qatari beneficiaries are universities of the caliber of George Washington University, where they projected a giant text on the wall of the library which reads: 'Glory to our martyrs'. The president of George Washington issued a vague statement saying that 'the projections on the university's library violate university policies', but did not say whether he would divest from the $521,000 taken from Hamas benefactors since 2021. Among the Qatari beneficiaries is it's also Harvard, with $4.4 million. Thirty Harvard groups wrote that they 'hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all ongoing violence.' Qatar has donated more than $4 million to Bard College, a private college in New York. These universities include Northwestern University, which received $647 million. Students on campus distributed a newspaper that falsely claimed that Israel had bombed a hospital. Another is Virginia Commonwealth University, which received a quarter of a billion dollars from Qatar. 1,000 professors signed a petition asking not to condemn the Hamas terrorist attack."

The Dispatch reports: “Cornell University has received $760 million from Doha to fund the creation of a satellite campus. But also Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, Texas A&M and Virginia Commonwealth. These six reported total Qatari funding of $4.8 billion since 2005. Sermons held at the Education City mosque provide some insight into the values ​​of the Qatar Foundation. In a sermon, the preacher Mudassir Ahmed declared: 'Kill the infidels. … Count them and don't spare a single one'. The Qatar Foundation promoted Ahmed's sermon, using its logo and that of Qatar's Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs."

Texas University receives $76 million annually from Qatar.

Saudi Arabia donated 270 million to 144 American universities in one year. Alone, the University of Toledo has received 23,263,343 from 2018 to date. George Washington University, 19033137. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $16,885,405.

The situation is so out of control in the United States that Catholic universities have now become a haven for attacked Jews.

But not just America.

According to an academic report cited by the BBC , Islamic regimes have donated £750 million to English universities since 1996. The Qatar Development Fund has donated three million pounds to Oxford alone.

Who knows if pro-Hamas English academics will show solidarity with the colleague from the University of Leeds whose seven family members were kidnapped by Hamas…

The Chamber and Senate in Italy have ratified the cooperation agreement on education, university and research between Italy and Qatar. At the University of Roma Due , Tor Vergata, they had no problems in making a pact with Qatar. The deputy prime minister of Qatar, Hamad Bin Abdulaziz al Kawari , even received an honorary degree in Tor Vergata. Giuseppe Novelli, the magnificent rector, paid his respects.

At Sapienza in the last few hours the students have burned (literally) the agreements with Israel, but not the ones that their professors went to sign in Iran .

The agreement was signed in Rome between the rector of Sapienza University, Eugenio Gaudio, and that of the University of Iran, Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi.

Here are other agreements signed by Sapienza with Iran: on the proposal of Professor Enzo Lippolis, an agreement was signed with the National Museum of Iran; on the proposal of Professor Maria Vittoria Fontana, two agreements with the Tehran Research Center and on the proposal of Professor Annunziata D'Orazio, a protocol with the University of Isfahan.

Thus, the Israeli Apartheid Week, the week of hatred of Israel and for the academic boycott of the Jewish state, was organized at Sapienza University in the Faculty of Economics.

And now calling for the destruction of Israel are renowned professors of Sapienza such as the Arabist Isabella Camera D'Affitto, awarded by Mattarella, and Paolo Matthiae, the archaeologist who discovered Ebla. They are not remembered for taking positions against Islamic theocracy.

A delegation of Italian professors visited Beirut. "We are very happy for this meeting with Hezbollah" said Rosella Castellano, professor at Sapienza University in Rome. Now I ask myself, what should be the university exchange between these teachers and a terrorist and Islamist organization that keeps Lebanon under control and threatens Israel? Academic Eurabia.

The same professors, led by the future Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi, who prevented Pope Ratzinger (a world-famous professor and theologian even before being Pontiff) from speaking at the Sapienza about science, law, culture, history and everything relating to everyone's life. They lined up against Benedict XVI from Alberto Asor Rosa to Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo, communists who would also have written pages of hatred against Israel and the Jews. But it wasn't enough for the Sapienza academics to have him kicked out. They organized round tables1 in the Faculty of Law: "The interference of the Vatican in the political sphere and individual choices is unacceptable for a modern and secular state." Angelo D'Orsi, historian from the University of Turin, another hysterical anti-Israel activist, intervened. Even the Faculty of Engineering at Sapienza2took the field with a motion against Ratzinger voted by 266 teachers (only 11 against).

Iran's ayatollahs just said they had launched a "war of attrition" to " destroy Western civilization ." Judging by Sapienza and the other universities, which in theory should be the temples of Western culture, a war they have already won.

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